{"id":5,"date":"2010-09-28T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/"},"modified":"2010-12-12T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:39:12","slug":"about-tedd-bale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Bale obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Hartt School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he majored in piano, and a master&#8217;s degree from Northeastern University, where his studies focused on classical rhetoric. From 2000 to 2008 he was dance critic and columnist at the <em>Boston Herald<\/em>. His reviews and features have appeared in many newspapers in Massachusetts and Texas and\u00a0he has written extensively on dance for the worldwide web. From 2002 to 2005 he served on the board of the directors of the Dance Critics Association and was co-coordinator, with Merilyn Jackson, of the DCA twenty-ninth annual conference in 2004 in Philadelphia. Mr. Bale was a 2005 fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts arts journalism program, based at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. He has studied classical ballet and a variety of contemporary dance techniques, performing with the Northern Connecticut Ballet for seven years. He\u00a0has served as a moderator and lecturer on dance history, aesthetics, and criticism at Boston\u00a0 College, Boston University, Boston Conservatory of Music and Dance, Bates College, Duke University, Jacob&#8217;s Pillow Dance Festival, and Emerson College.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bale\u00a0grew up\u00a0in Connecticut and lived in Boston from 1986-2010.\u00a0He\u00a0moved to Houston, Texas in March, 2010. At present he is writing a book titled <em>Kisses to the Earth: The New Rite of Spring<\/em>, a critical study of recent choreographic interpretations of<em> Le Sacre du Printemps<\/em>. A chapter, \u00a0<em>Dancing Out of the Whole Earth: Modalities of Globalization in The Rite of Spring,<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0is published in Volume 31, Number 3 of the\u00a0journal <em>Dance Chronicle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He might have become an arts critic as the result of meeting John Cage in 1976. Or, it could have been a performance of Anna Sokolow&#8217;s <em>Lyric Suite<\/em> or George Balanchine&#8217;s <em>Symhony in Three Movements<\/em>. He&#8217;s not quite sure how it all started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Bale obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Hartt School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he majored in piano, and a master&#8217;s degree from Northeastern University, where his studies focused on classical rhetoric. From 2000 to 2008 he was dance critic and columnist at the Boston Herald. His reviews and features have appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theodore Bale obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Hartt School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he majored in piano, and a master&#8217;s degree from Northeastern University, where his studies focused on classical rhetoric. From 2000 to 2008 he was dance critic and columnist at the Boston Herald. His reviews and features have appeared in [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Texas, a Concept\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-12-12T19:39:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/about-tedd-bale\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/about-tedd-bale\\\/\",\"name\":\"Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-09-28T20:03:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-12-12T19:39:12+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/about-tedd-bale\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/about-tedd-bale\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/about-tedd-bale\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/about\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Theodore Bale\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/\",\"name\":\"Texas, a Concept\",\"description\":\"Art, Music, and Dance in the Lone Star state\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ArtsJournal\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/AJLogo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/AJLogo.png\",\"width\":270,\"height\":80,\"caption\":\"ArtsJournal\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.artsjournal.com\\\/texas\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept","og_description":"Theodore Bale obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Hartt School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he majored in piano, and a master&#8217;s degree from Northeastern University, where his studies focused on classical rhetoric. From 2000 to 2008 he was dance critic and columnist at the Boston Herald. His reviews and features have appeared in [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/","og_site_name":"Texas, a Concept","article_modified_time":"2010-12-12T19:39:12+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/","url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/","name":"Theodore Bale - Texas, a Concept","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-09-28T20:03:30+00:00","dateModified":"2010-12-12T19:39:12+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/about-tedd-bale\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About","item":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/about\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Theodore Bale"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/","name":"Texas, a Concept","description":"Art, Music, and Dance in the Lone Star state","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#organization","name":"ArtsJournal","url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AJLogo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AJLogo.png","width":270,"height":80,"caption":"ArtsJournal"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}